Liberalization of the energy market
– Lignite-fired power generation
More specifically, the leadership of the Ministry
has recently presented the EU’s Directorate
General for Competition with the specification of
the government’s proposal on lignite-fired power
production.
As part of the meetings that began in July 2010
among the Greek government and the represen-
tatives of the European Commission, the
European Central Bank and the International
T
he Minister for the Environment, Energy
and Climate Change, Tina Birbili, and the
responsible deputy Minister, G.
Maniatis, seek the realization of €20 billion
worth of investments in “green growth” by 2015.
The effort to implement the 20-20-20 rule, as
part of the EU’s green energy mandate, has
already started at the Ministry and is also gain-
ing momentum as a result of the Memorandum
of Economic & Fiscal Policies signed by Greece
and the EU, the IMF and the ECB.
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The major energy stakes
for 2011
By Christos Colonas
The opening of the electricity market, and above all, lignite-fired
power generation, the development of renewable energy
sources and energy efficiency in buildings, as well as the develop-
ment and exploitation of hydrocarbons and the mineral wealth of
Greece, are the government’s major energy stakes.
